Terri Hodge was the highest-ranking public official implicated in the FBI corruption investigation that shook Dallas politics during the aughts.

She had long denied wrongdoing, but eventually pleaded guilty to lying on her taxes. Hodge omitted about $27,000 in money from developers Brian and Cheryl Potashnik, who paid her apartment rent, utilities and other benefits for her support in their pursuit of millions in low-income housing tax credits.

Hodge returned to Dallas yesterday, after completing 10 months in federal prison. Gromer Jeffers Jr. reports that she’ll spend a few more months in a halfway house to finish her one-year sentence.

Hodge had this to say before leaving D/FW International Airport: “I’m going to spend some time with my family and try to get myself back together, and begin to do the things that I did prior to leaving Dallas. I may not be an elected official, but I will still work for the benefit of the people.”